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Essential Classics Episodes

  1. BBC Music Day

    With Rob Cowan on BBC Music Day, featuring the BBC Singers live and guest Will Gregory.

  2. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Will Gregory

    Including Artist of the Week: David Zinman, featured conducting Honegger and Schumann.

  3. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Will Gregory

    Artist of the Week: David Zinman, featured conducting Strauss's Tod und Verklarung.

  4. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Will Gregory

    Artist of the Week: David Zinman, featured conducting Mozart's Violin Concerto No 3.

  5. Monday - Rob Cowan with Will Gregory

    With Rob Cowan. Including Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No 1 and Beethoven: Symphony No 2.

  6. Friday - Rob Cowan with Omid Djalili

    With Artist of the Week: Grigory Sokolov, featured in Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No 8.

  7. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Omid Djalili

    With Artist of the Week: pianist Grigory Sokolov, featured in Chopin's Preludes, Op 28.

  8. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Omid Djalili

    With Rob Cowan. Including Beethoven's Diabelli Variations.

  9. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Omid Djalili

    Artist of the Week: pianist Grigory Sokolov, featured in Mozart's Piano Sonata in F, K332.

  10. Monday - Rob Cowan with Omid Djalili

    With Rob Cowan. Artist of the Week: Grigory Sokolov, in Bach: The Art of Fugue (excerpts).

  11. Friday - Sarah Walker with Monty Don

    Sarah Walker presents. With Artist of the Week Maxim Vengerov, featured in Ravel's Tzigane

  12. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Monty Don

    With Artist of the Week Maxim Vengerov, featured in Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1.

  13. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Monty Don

    With Artist of the Week Maxim Vengerov, featured in Waxman's Carmen Fantasy.

  14. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Monty Don

    With Artist of the Week Maxim Vengerov, featured in Glazunov's Violin Concerto.

  15. Monday - Sarah Walker with Monty Don

    With Artist of the Week: violinist Maxim Vengerov, featured in Saint-Saens's Havanaise.

  16. Friday - Rob Cowan with Mike Leigh

    With Rob Cowan. Including Mahler's Symphony No 4.

  17. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Mike Leigh

    With Rob Cowan. Including Sibelius's Symphony No 4.

  18. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Mike Leigh

    With Rob Cowan. Artist of the Week: George Szell, who conducts Beethoven's Symphony No 4.

  19. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Mike Leigh

    With Rob Cowan. Including Brahms's Symphony No 4.

  20. Monday - Rob Cowan with Mike Leigh

    With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Walton: Cello Concerto.

  21. Friday - Sarah Walker with Martin Shaw

    With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Beethoven: Symphony No 3.

  22. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Martin Shaw

    With Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice: Schubert: Prometheus. Wolf: Prometheus.

  23. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Martin Shaw

    With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Liszt: Prometheus.

  24. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Martin Shaw

    With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Alkan: Grande Sonate, Op 33.

  25. Young Artists Day - Sarah Walker with Folu Odimayo

    With Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice Scriabin: Prometheus: The Poem of Fire.

  26. Friday - Sarah Walker with Michel Roux Jr

    With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Saint-Saens: Danse macabre.

  27. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Michel Roux Jr

    Sarah Walker. Includes Essential Choice: Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain.

  28. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Michel Roux Jr

    With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead.

  29. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Michel Roux Jr

    With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Dvorak: The Water Goblin.

  30. Monday - Sarah Walker with Michel Roux Jr

    With Sarah Walker. Includes CD Review's Building a Library recommentation: Verdi: Macbeth.

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